The price of madre cacao or the cacao which is the source of raw chocolate is pricey that everything about chocolates are expensive. Nothing so cheap anymore that's for sure.
The price of gas went up again. Nothing's cheap anymore. Everything goes up.
What goes up must come down. There is also a law of gravity you know.
Then here comes pop-up store SHEIN and when reporters interviewed people about SHEIN they were like commenting badly having negative feedback. Like ,why buy goods from a company that deals with forced labor. What? What is force labor? Good that they are employed. Better than no work. Or claim that they employ young kids to work. How young for a human to not work and be idle for the rest of their lives? What is forced labor in picking up cotton from the cotton farm? How hard that would be? How hard to sew garments when you are using modern sewing machines? My God, those idiots are so f' ignorant about work. You think those workers are children? Asian people looked younger & shorter even if they are already age 40.
Well, only for seconds... and then out of curiosity they were inside the department store browsing and later on buying goods. Daming kaartehan! LOL
Negative publicity sometimes help, sometimes it destroys.
Nothing's wrong with inexpensive items to buy. BE CLEVER. BE SMART! Good that there are cheap items and goods to buy. Anything that you can afford you must take advantage of it while you have the time and chance.
Why buy expensive goods? You think that expensive items are all 100% of good quality or better than the others? Actually expensive goods or brand items are expensive because of the brand name. You are paying the "name" not the quality or the material. You are paying too much because of the famous endorsers of those goods who are already millionaires and billionaires! Millionaires and billionaires who are stingy, greedy and corrupt.
BE FRUGAL. Be economically wise in times of adversity.